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Story last updated at
12:35 PM on
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Boy makes bomb threat on ferry

By Michael Armstrong
Staff Writer

A bomb threat on the M/V Tustumena called in by a boy on Sunday remains under investigation. Police and Alaska State Troopers went to the Pioneer Dock on the Homer Spit about 9:55 p.m. Oct. 9. No evacuation was ordered of the ferry and the Tustumena left on schedule.

A caller identified as a young man by his voice told police dispatchers there was a bomb on the ferry and then hung up, Homer Police Chief Mark Robl said. The call came from outside Homer. If identified, the boy could be charged with terroristic threatening.